Omaha daily bee., 1887-12-26

mined by the Ponca mining company,
| and there is demand for all the coal that
! can be taken out.
Lincoln has voted strong to build a
railroad to Red Oak and Des Moines.
The road will make capital CONNER
cial link-when built
| Shuyler follows in the lurid wake of
| Weeping Water with blaze that wiped
out SO 600 worth OF property. Good in
surance politics will reduce the loss by
half.
A number of papers are discussing, in
| lenpthened paragraphs, 1.-THE issue for
| next year." The BEES issue for next
year will consist of S66 daily chapters,
| with extras thrown in on great occa-
| sions.
A Central City paper tells huge
truth when it says that Lincoln is ''forg-
| ing ahead as "a iobbing center" Un-
fortunately the legislature is not now
| i'm session and traffic is in state of in
nocuous decay.
Chunks of wood, somewhat decayed,
have been found at u depth of thirty
feet at Genoa. The find recalls and en-
| phasizes the tremendous force with
which useless political timber was
driven into the earth in days gone by.
The Fremont Tribune suggests that
between Fremont and Nebraska City in
| the stock yards line, "the conviction is
| growing that Omaha will gradually ac-
| quire the name of Dennis" This is the
season for children to laugh and play
| with their new dolls. The elders enjoy
their antics.
| Superior, Nuckolls county, promises
| to become great railroad center, If
local accounts are taken at face value.
The Northwestern is heading straight
for the town and the Santa Fe is de-
batting the building of branch in that
direction, to capture share of the
traffic of the region.
Colfax county has some OF the best
and most industrious young men in the
state. Among the number may be
classed two sons of Reuben Dickinson,
sixteen and seventeen years. The young
men cultivated and cared for ninety
acres of corn this year, and it was among
the very best raised in that section of
the country, averaging over fifty BUSH
els to the acre. They also did about
all the work on twenty-six acres of
wheat, which yielded COG bushels.
Jesse Holmes of Avoca displayed un-
common grit under painful circum-
stances last week. While working with
a team three miles from Avoca. the an
imals ran away, throwing him out of the
wagon, the wheels passing over and
breaking both legs. Instead of going
to the nearest house, Holmes, suffering
untold agony, crawled to within half u
mile OF Avoca, where a passing farmer
picked him up and took him to the near
est doctor. His injuries are dangerous,
and will keep him housed for months.
The Indianola Courier has discovered
that the Omaha Republican has invested
in an agricultural editor at great labor
and expense, and urges that the follow
ing be added to the hog rules recently
promulgated by the imported thorough
bred: "Our limited experience on the
farm has taught us that new hog, a
bran new one, that weighs about three
hundred pounds, has very delicate
constitution. A new hog should always
be furnished with an umbrella from the
18th day of May tin the oath day of Oc-
tObcr and u linen, duster whenever he
travels. The balance of the year the
new hog should be provided with a
chlnchilla overcoat, as wet weather and
sudden cold snaps ruin the hard oil
finish of II new hog, and no amount of
Sterling polish will ever afterward re-
lieve his hogship OF his secondhand
appearance. We would caution farmers
to be very careful of their new hogs"
Iowa Items.
The state legislature assemblies Jan
uary9.
There is great complaint of the lack
of transportation facilities in all parts
of the state.
The records of the state board of
health show the deaths in Iowa resulting
from lightning in the past four years to
be eighteen.
The supreme court has decided that
OsllalOOsa has a right to contract with
the Edison Electric company for light
ing the streets.
Evidences of coal mine within twenty
miles of Akron have been discovered.
| The coal is in immense quantities and
of excellent quality.
, There are 225 men at work on the rail
| road bridge at Sioux City. The first
caisson is down thirty feet and going for
rock bottom at the rate of four feet q
day.
Mrs. Fleming, of Des Moines, in re-
l sisting Constable Pierce, who attempted
) to take from her flask of brandy, lei
the bottle fall into an open stove. The
, liquid ignited, and communicating the
flame to her person, caused serious in
juries.
Robinson & Hit will remove their
| omnibus anu SJfceb Car ldcIOFy lIOu
/ Waterloo to Minneapolis in short
time. Cash and real estate to tho
amount of $4,000 have been offered tt
the firm as a bonus to locate in Mime
apolis.
Dakota.
An effort is on foot to establish pack
ing house at Tyndall.
Real estate transfers in Sioux Fall
: for the year amounted to over So ,OO0, 900
8 The Marion creamery has paid GU
. $ll sos in the past eight months t
farmers for cream.
/ Dan G.. Needham as secretary of tn,
a Territorial Farmers alliance, will opel
an Office at Aberdeen.
The metallurgical library at Rapit
City school of mines is nearly completed
and special class for miners will b,
g organized January /.
n The Dakota wheat crop of 1887 bid
o fair to overrun the 10000, 900 bushel
! estimated by Commissioner p. f. Nc
Clure. Already 25,0O0, 900 bushels have
> been marketed. ~